My writing totem

When I started my very first book, it was in a white Get Along Gang notebook. I have no remembrance of the Get Along Gang. I never watched a single episode of the show, to my knowledge. Since I hadn't known who the Get Along Gang was (I was going to abbreviate that as GAG but… um, no), I never used the notebook as a kid so when I decided to start my first novel as a teen the notebook was entirely new, clean and empty and I claimed it for my fiction.

The draft of my book that...